“Fish Story” centre around a rock band from 1975 who decide to break up having had no success, they record one last song before the band splits up. Decades later that song will have a profound effect on peoples lives, eventually becoming the savior of the world."
After reading that little summary I knew I got to watch this movie. 112 wonderful minutes later- and one of the most brilliant ending I ever watched- I was smiling so hard my face hurts. It is one of those movies that after you watched it, your soul wont rest peacefully until you tell someone, or the worst case event, force someone, to watch it.
In a nutshell, it is a story of the last song of a proto-punk band that disbanded in 1975(a year before Sex Pistols-mania) and how it started a chain of event involving an urban legend, a champion of justice, a band of mad preachers, Nostradamus prophecies, badly translated novel and saving the world from Mayan's 2012 theories.
The aforementioned song, also titled 'Fish Story', is quite good. It was written by Kazuyoshi Saito and performed by the actors playing the band.
Fish Story
The story of my solitude
If my solitude were a fish
It'd be so enormous, so militant
A whale would get out of there
I know it would
I'm sure it would
If my solitude were a fish
It'd be so enormous, so militant
A whale would get out of there
I know it would
I'm sure it would
The story of my solitude
If my solitude were a fish
It'd be so enormous, so militant
A whale would get out of there
If my solitude were a fish
It'd be so enormous, so militant
A whale would get out of there
Don't assume that I'm dead
Don't assume that I'm dead
Music stacked up like wooden blocks
Is the only salvation
The story of my failure
If my failure were a fish
It'd be so tragically comic
I'd have no place in the sea to be
Don't you know you're a liar!
Don't you know you're a deceiver!
Music stacked up like wooden blocks
Is the champion of justice!
If my justice really were a fish
It'd be so greedy and arrogant
I'd pump the magma
Out of the ocean bed!
Don't assume that I'm dead
Music stacked up like wooden blocks
Is the only salvation
The story of my failure
If my failure were a fish
It'd be so tragically comic
I'd have no place in the sea to be
Don't you know you're a liar!
Don't you know you're a deceiver!
Music stacked up like wooden blocks
Is the champion of justice!
If my justice really were a fish
It'd be so greedy and arrogant
I'd pump the magma
Out of the ocean bed!
The story of my solitude
If my solitude were a fish
It'd be so enormous, so militant
A whale would get out of there.
If my solitude were a fish
It'd be so enormous, so militant
A whale would get out of there.
I had been hunting for the OST with no success but you could download the mp3 from the youtube video. The download link for the movie..I'm gonna introduce you guys to this site I like. I dont feel good stealing people's link, so I'm just gonna point you to them. Its a free site of course, with tons of Asians movies/dramas from Japan, Korean, Hong Kong. They got everything from Yakuza movies to pinku/cat III- you name it, they (probably) got it.
You just gonna need to register and log on to see the link(mostly MU).
http://myasiancinema.com/j-movie-fish-story-2009/
3 comments:
You're FUCKING RIGHT! I HAD TO force my mum to watch it! My soul isn't resting even after 3 months I've watched this it's just too amazing and genial.
It really has and incredible ending, I especially love the kind of movies where different people's lives get entagled in the end...
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who got enlightened after watching this. It's probably my all-time favourite movie, along "Gravity's Clown" and "Seaside Motel" (both Japanese, the second one also gave me a similar feeling to the one Fish Story gave me).
I regret now that I didn't buy Fish Story's DVD when I was in Japan... it would have been SO worth it.
We must spread the amazingness of this movie.
Stumbled on 'Seaside Motel' but didnt download it, though i thought the cover looked cool. Never heard of Gravity Clown, will try to look for both of them.
May I recommend 'Survive Style 5+' and 'Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl'..or to be safe, just get anything with Asano Tadanobu in it. That guy tend to kick ass onscreen
I loved this movie! Its definitely one film I'm always telling folks to watch.
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